Democracy category: 2250 books
by Hebert, Danoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume,...
Beyond Habermas
Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a “bourgeois public sphere” in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the “public sphere”...
The Danger of Being a Gentleman (Works of Harold J. Laski)
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
An excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski’s volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a society of equals sharing in a common good.
by Harold J. Laski
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Laski’s magnum opus, this volume outlines the history and functions of state institutions which (in the author’s view) are desirable for the effective functioning of a democracy. Topics discussed include: The necessity of government; state and society; rights and power; liberty and equality; property...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Peaceful, prosperous, democratic and respectful of people’s rights, building Europe is an ongoing challenge. For many years it seemed that Europeans lived on a continent of shared values and a common destiny. No one paid attention to the alarm bells warning of growing divisions across the continent,...
Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean
Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Have efforts to advance women’s and men’s commitments to democratic governance, women’s rights and gender equality been successful in the Caribbean? Do they reflect local as well as international concerns and visions of gender equality?
This edited collection answers these questions by...
Gaian Democracies
Redefining Globalisation & People-Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Schumacher Briefing, Roy Madron and John Jopling argue that the main purpose of our Western democracies is to satisfy the needs of a global debt-money system through the pursuit of economic growth. This 'Global Monetocracy' is a hugely powerful system that is imposing social injustice, economic...
Democratization
Theory and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2002
Democratization has swept the globe over the past generation, and analysts and policy makers have been struggling to keep up. Bookshelves have been filled with case studies and assessments of this kaleidoscope of experiences, and a related scholarly community has developed seeking to systematize all...
Democratic Humility
Reinhold Niebuhr, Neuroscience, and America’s Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
American politics is in a state of crisis but it is not clear why. Nor do we know what to do about it. Reinhold Niebuhr helps us understand what is wrong with our politics and research into the workings of the brain confirms his analysis. Call it sin or motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, the...
by Donald L. Beahm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The fundamental tenet of democracy is that the majority rules. Yet as James Madison wrote, 'Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.' In this focused new work, Don Beahm synthesizes some of the most powerful conceptualizations of, and corrections to, the majority...
Peoples of the Earth
Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in 'Latin' America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Peoples of the Earth employs a comparative history of ethno-nationalism to examine Indian activism and its challenges to the political, social and economic status quo in the countries of Central and South America. It explores the intersect between problems of democratic empowerment and security-including...
by Kenneth Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of it
where people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an unending struggle to win such rights and power, to hold and to extend them. The contending classes are essentially the poor and weak majority of the people...
Towards Responsible Government in East Asia
Trajectories, Intentions and Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
This book explores the idea of responsible government in East Asia, arguing that many recent governance crises have resulted from responsibility failures on a huge scale. It distinguishes between accountability, which it argues has been overemphasised recently, and responsibility, which it argues...
by Cameron Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia’s highly...